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From: "thorsten Sideb0ard"
quoted 4 lines and i think electronic music would be waaaay better if there
> > and i think electronic music would be waaaay better if there
> > were more labels like irdial.
> > much much much respect to the irdial!
> > www.irdial.comquoted 3 lines Actually, i think their actions are pretty questionable and sounds like
> Actually, i think their actions are pretty questionable and sounds like
> they are just trying to make a buck of someone elses work:
> http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63952,00.html
Yeah, that was a lame-o move on Irdial's part:
"In 1998, London-based Irdial-Discs put out a four-CD collection of broadcasts from so-called
numbers stations -- mysterious shortwave transmissions, allegedly sent by the worlds' intelligence
agencies, of monotone readers spewing alphanumeric streams. On the first of the discs, a woman in
an indecipherable accent -- a Mossad agent, according to legend -- keeps repeating three words:
"Yankee ... hotel ... foxtrot."
It's the same recording that loops for a minute and a half during "Poor Places," the 10th track on
Wilco's 2002 album. After a two-year legal fight, Tweedy agreed in an out-of-court settlement to
give Akin Fernandez, Irdial's owner and sole employee, a substantial royalty for the recording.
It's unclear whether Fernandez even recorded the "Yankee" shortwave broadcast himself. Simon Mason,
a spycast enthusiast and author of Secret Signals: The Euronumbers Mystery, said he gave Fernandez
the captured transmission -- one of many -- in an informal deal.
"All that money I could have made if I had copyrighted them!" Mason wrote. "Since I gave Akin the
recordings willingly for nothing, I don't have any come back. But in hindsight I would have come to
some sort of deal that meant I would get a cut, but life is too short to get upset about it now.""
Washington Post article about the Conet Project:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35647-2004Aug2.html
(courtesy of David Hodgson, Playing By Ear.)
On a related Conet note:
can anyone reveal the source for the 'Conet Project Remix Session' for us?
I've passed a few dozen copies of that one around (some of them to idm list members),
and would love more info re: that recording from anyone out there.
Also, if anyone would like a copy/burn of the 'Conet Project Remix Session',
see me for more info.
(And take ~that~, Irdial! ;))
seek
np: Machinedrum - Bidnezz (on the mighty Merck of Miami)
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